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The M5 is a spur
Originally announced in 1964, the M5 was planned to follow the route of the
CBRD Motorway Database – M5 (Northern Ireland)
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motorway
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of 1.4 miles (2.3 km) length in north Belfast
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, Northern Ireland
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. It connects the M2 to the A2 Shore Road at Hazelbank in Newtownabbey
Newtownabbey ( ) is a large settlement in North Belfast in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is separated from the rest of the city by Cavehill and Fortwilliam golf course. It surrounds Carnmoney Hill, and was formed from the merging of severa ...
. It is a dual two lane road with most of the road on a causeway in Belfast Lough
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in order to bypass Whitehouse beach.
History & future development
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to Carrickfergus
Carrickfergus ( , meaning " Fergus' rock") is a large town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It sits on the north shore of Belfast Lough, from Belfast. The town had a population of 27,998 at the 2011 Census. It is County Antrim's oldest ...
. Under the plans it would also have been the southern terminus of the unbuilt M6 Motorway to Larne. The scale of the scheme was reduced to its present form in the 1969 transport review, but it was recommended that the line of the originally planned route should be protected from development. Opening to traffic on 12 September 1980, the M5 was the only one of Northern Ireland's original motorway schemes to proceed after the cancellation of all the existing motorway plans in 1975 following the deterioration of civil order. The M3 later opened in 1995, and had the same number as the original planned motorway in east Belfast, but was a completely different project.
Culverts were added to ensure that what became Whitehouse Lagoon remained tidal, however these have not worked and the beach has become mud and sludge since the motorway opened. In 2008 the Northern Ireland Executive
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approved a plan to dual the road from the University of Ulster
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campus at Jordanstown
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as far as Carrickfergus, involving the compulsory purchase of twelve houses, a commercial unit and parts of 68 gardens. The dualling was completed in 2013, and left only a two-mile section from Whitehouse through Whiteabbey
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as single lane road.
Junctions
See also
*Roads in Ireland
The island of Ireland, comprising Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, has an extensive network of tens of thousands of kilometres of public roads, usually surfaced. These roads have been developed and modernised over centuries, from tr ...
*List of motorways in the United Kingdom
This list of motorways in the United Kingdom is a complete list of motorways in the United Kingdom. Note that the numbering scheme used for Great Britain does not include roads in Northern Ireland, which are allocated numbers on an ad hoc basis ...
References
External links
CBRD Motorway Database – M5 (Northern Ireland)
{{DEFAULTSORT:5-0005 Motorways in Northern Ireland Roads in Belfast Roads in County Antrim